2006 World Wrestling Championships – Men's freestyle 96 kg

Men's freestyle 96 kg at the 2006 World Championships
Venue	Tianhe Gymnasium
Dates	29 September 2006
Competitors	27 from 27 nations
Medalists
Khadzhimurat Gatsalov   Russia   Besik Kudukhov   Georgia   Michel Batista   Cuba   Ruslan Sheikhau   Belarus

Main article: 2006 World Wrestling Championships

The men's freestyle 96 kilograms is a competition featured at the 2006 World Wrestling Championships, and was held at the Tianhe Gymnasium in Guangzhou, China on 29 September 2006.

This freestyle wrestling competition consists of a single-elimination tournament, with a repechage used to determine the winner of two bronze medals.

Results

Legend

• F — Won by fall
• WO — Won by walkover

Final

	Final
	Khadzhimurat Gatsalov (RUS)	0	3	4
	Giorgi Gogshelidze (GEO)	1	0	0

Top half

	Round of 32						Round of 16						Quarterfinals						Semifinals
							Nicolás Castro (ESP)	0	0
							David Zilberman (CAN)	5	7
													David Zilberman (CAN)	1	3F
													Koo Tae-hyun (KOR)	0	0
							Koo Tae-hyun (KOR)	2	2	1
							Kiyotaka Kodaira (JPN)	3	0	0
																			David Zilberman (CAN)	0	0
																			Khadzhimurat Gatsalov (RUS)	3	2
							Khadzhimurat Gatsalov (RUS)	6	3
	Cui Xiaocheng (CHN)	1	4				Cui Xiaocheng (CHN)	0	0
	Luis Vivenes (VEN)	1	1										Khadzhimurat Gatsalov (RUS)	3	9F
	Michel Batista (CUB)	1	2	1									Michel Batista (CUB)	0	4
	Shamil Gitinov (ARM)	0	3	0			Michel Batista (CUB)	0	5	4
	Gürjavyn Batpürev (MGL)	1	0				Sait Bingöl (TUR)	1	0	0
	Sait Bingöl (TUR)	2	6

Bottom half

	Round of 32						Round of 16						Quarterfinals						Semifinals
	Norbert Bödör (SVK)	0
	Giorgi Gogshelidze (GEO)	4F					Giorgi Gogshelidze (GEO)	2	0	1
	Alireza Heidari (IRI)	2	0	7			Alireza Heidari (IRI)	0	1	0
	Daniel Cormier (USA)	0	1	0									Giorgi Gogshelidze (GEO)	1	2
	Antoine Jaoude (BRA)	0	0										Aleksey Krupnyakov (KGZ)	0	0
	Aleksey Krupnyakov (KGZ)	7	4				Aleksey Krupnyakov (KGZ)	2	3
	Kazbek Missikov (FRA)	0	4				Stefan Kehrer (GER)	1	0
	Stefan Kehrer (GER)	1	5F																Giorgi Gogshelidze (GEO)	1	3
	Rohit Patel (IND)	7	7																Ruslan Sheikhau (BLR)	1	0
	Waylon Muller (MHL)	0	0				Rohit Patel (IND)	1	0
	Francesco Miano-Petta (ITA)	0	0				Ruslan Sheikhau (BLR)	6	6
	Ruslan Sheikhau (BLR)	3	4										Ruslan Sheikhau (BLR)	2	0	1
	Vasyl Tesmynetskyi (UKR)	1	2	1									Vasyl Tesmynetskyi (UKR)	1	1	0
	Gergely Kiss (HUN)	6	0	0			Vasyl Tesmynetskyi (UKR)	2	0	3
	Bartłomiej Bartnicki (POL)	0	1	0			Nurzhan Katayev (KAZ)	0	2	2
	Nurzhan Katayev (KAZ)	1	0	5

Repechage

	Repechage round 1						Repechage round 2						Bronze medals
							Cui Xiaocheng (CHN)	1	3				Michel Batista (CUB)	0	1	1
							Michel Batista (CUB)	2	3				David Zilberman (CAN)	1	0	1
	Norbert Bödör (SVK)						Alireza Heidari (IRI)	1	2				Alireza Heidari (IRI)	1	0	1
	Alireza Heidari (IRI)	W	O				Aleksey Krupnyakov (KGZ)	1	1				Ruslan Sheikhau (BLR)	0	1	1